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| Short Name: | Nancy Byrd Turner |
| Full Name: | Turner, Nancy Byrd, 1880-1971 |
| Birth Year: | 1880 |
| Death Year: | 1971 |
Turner, Nancy Byrd. Born in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880, daughter of Byrd Thornton Turner and Nancy Addison (Harrison) Turner. Composed her first verse at three. First published verse at age of 8--a romantic ballad, "Ruth in the Dentist's Chair" (he fell in love). Her father was an Episcopal minister; they lived in about a dozen small towns or rural communities during her childhood. In 1916, she went to Boston and joined the staff of Youth's Companion. She wrote under many pen names, and published in several magazines. She won numerous awards, including the "Golden Rose" of the New England Poetry Society and the Lyric Associates award of 1951.
--Letter from Turner Rose to Jean Woodward Steele, Westminster Press, 1 February 1974, DNAH Archives.
Texts by Nancy Byrd Turner (80) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| When the week has ended | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| When skies are blue and wind | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| When morning light is on the hill | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| When light is in the morning sky | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| When Jesus was a little lad | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 4 |
| When Jesus walked this earth of ours He loved the little growing flowers | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| When Jesus walked in old Judea | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| We're children of one Father | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 5 |
| We will be friends with all the world | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Very yellow, very brown | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| 'Twas long ago and far away | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| 'Twas in an old garden Upon an old hill | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| There's frost on the hill | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| There were three lights that night | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| The Word of God shall guide my feet | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 7 |
| The Word of God must go | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| The wee bird in the willow | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| The lovely day is over now | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| The Lord is great, and great his endless glory | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| The little King of the world came down | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| The church of God is everywhere | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 5 |
| Thank God for lovely summertime | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| Stars were gleaming, Shepherds dreaming | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 9 |
| Speak to Thy child, O God | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 5 |
| Some of us live in the fair, cold north | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Sing about a birthday, Birthday bright and clear | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Shine, shine over all the world | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Shine, shine, Christmas star | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Shall we not send to other lands | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Our heavenly Father's watchful love is over us | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Our happy land America | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Once there was a little town Upon a quiet hill | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 4 |
| Once there was a garden fair | Nancy Turner (Author) | English | 4 |
| O Son of Man, who walked each day | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 13 |
| Now it's happy autumn time | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Now in chilly places | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| Nobody is too young, Nobody is too small | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Moved by the Gospel, let us move | Nancy Byrd Turner, 1880-19817 (Author (alt. text)) | English | 1 |
| Merrily, merrily, Tell of the Christmas tree | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Men go out from the places | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| Love made the daisy on the hill | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Little, light, All the night | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Let us be loyal! Heart and hand | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Learn well one lovely rule | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 4 |
| Kitty cat, I'll smooth your fur | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Just before I sleep tonight | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| It's your flag and my flag, with light in every star | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| It is very good to be Useful in the family | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| In tiny nests among the leaves | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| In garden, field and meadow | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| I will be true the livelong day | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 5 |
| I will be faithful, I will be true | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Here, Lord, our seeds we're sowing | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| He is ready to aid, when we pray | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Grow, wee violet; bloom, fair rose! | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Green in all the meadows | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| God's children speak in different tongues | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 1 | |
| God's children live in many lands | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| God made us a beautiful world | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| God is my helper, this I know | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 5 |
| God is Father to you and to me | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| Glad in the house of God | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Glad autumn time has come | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| Friends of Jesus must be kind | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 5 |
| For this good year of ours | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Father, we bring Thee our praises | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Father, hear our morning prayer | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Faithful and steady, Waiting we stand | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Every year at Easter time | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 4 |
| Every Christian night there comes | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| Deep under plain and mountain lie | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 2 | |
| Day has come and birds are singing | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Cream from the red cow | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Comes the wondrous hour | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Children who walk in Jesus' way | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 3 |
| Blow, wind, blow up and down | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| Baby Jesus, fast asleep | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 5 |
| Always earth is very fair | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 2 |
| All the world is God's world | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | 4 | |
| Above the world the winter stars | Nancy Byrd Turner (Author) | English | 4 |
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